Lance Lafontaine
Developer Intern - Domains & SSL at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLance Lafontaine is a pragmatic full-stack developer and software engineering student with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications, DevOps pipelines, and developer tools. Currently a Developer Intern on Shopify’s Domains & SSL team, he brings deep Python (Django/Flask), JavaScript (React/Redux/Node) and TDD expertise from roles at AppHelp and open-source contributions. He’s notable for contributing tooling to the high-profile rust-lang/book project—implementing robust quote-conversion logic that handled tricky edge cases like inline code and HTML tags. Lance pairs rigorous CS foundations in algorithms, design patterns and security with practical DevOps know-how across CI/CD and Linux architectures. His background in computational biology and undergraduate research adds a rare analytical perspective to software problems. Energetic in competitions and community events, he’s equally comfortable shipping production features or digging into subtle parsing and tooling bugs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering, 3.36/4.30, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering, 3.36/4.30 at Concordia UniversityDEC, Pure and Applied Sciences, DEC, Pure and Applied Sciences at John Abbott College
English, French
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Github Skills (16)
textbook10
docbook10
rust10
storybook10
regex9
command-line-tool9
html8
ecommerce6
content-management-system6
italic6
font-face6
nodejs6
javascript6
web-frontend6
sublime-text6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/book
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
The Rust Programming Language
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Lance primarily contributed to the `rust-lang/book` repository by developing and refining a tool for converting quotes. Their work focused on the `convert_quotes.rs` file, implementing and debugging features to correctly identify and replace different quote types, including handling inline code and HTML tags. The contributions included fixes for edge cases, such as quotes at the beginning of lines, and the user also addressed issues related to the detection of inline code blocks. The user also made changes to the book's theme file.
rustlanguage-designcompilermdbookprogramming-language
lancelafontaine/ractliffe-dog-training
May 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
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